Personal IT Experiences » Hardware http://www.pITexperiences.com Not Your Everyday IT Encounters                  Thu, 06 May 2010 13:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Parts List For My Home Lab Server http://www.pITexperiences.com/2010/05/02/parts-list-for-my-home-lab-server/ http://www.pITexperiences.com/2010/05/02/parts-list-for-my-home-lab-server/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 16:23:46 +0000 ptsnorth http://www.pITexperiences.com/?p=113 The hardware configuration I sought for my home lab server was a single server with 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM. All of these items were purchased at NewEgg.com for about $664, not including the shipping charges or sales tax.

  • Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case. Item #: N82E16811129042. Qty 1.
  • AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor Model HDZ940XCGIBOX. Item #: N82E16819103471. Qty 1.
  • CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5. Item #: N82E16820145184. Qty 2 (equals 8 GB).
  • ASUS M4A78-EM AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard. Item #: N82E16813131384. Qty 1.
  • Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU 500W ATX 12V 2.0 Power Supply. Item #: N82E16817153052. Qty 1.
  • Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive. Item #: N82E16822136098. Qty 2.

The rest of the items typically needed to build a bare-bones computer such as a CD drive, keyboard, mouse and monitor were castoff items already at hand.

This setup currently hosts 2-64-bit guest operating systems using XenServer 5.5.  No compatibility problems.  It’s a quiet setup and I am very happy with its speed and performance.

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